Horror stove repairs! Let's see them!

Hardly a repair, but possibly a contender for the all time world's most worn pump tube cap record:

Mind you I have also seen better leg repairs ...

 

That's had some serious use! Crusty leg is a work of art!

 

A prize for the first person to spot the after-market repair to this stove :



Cheers

Tony

 

The air bleed screw looks interesting.

 

@abman47

I'll post the full fettle and a Reference Gallery set of pics of this stove later today or tomorrow.

Cheers

Tony

 

At least that burner won't fall out...

 

Has anyone considered building a fount out of solder only? Then the repairs would blend in better

 

overheating could be exciting

 

Wouldn't it be self sealing??!

 

One ugly burner repair - and I only thought to take these photos AFTER straightening it


Looks pretty good viewed from above though

 

@igh371 , that deserves an "E" for effort. The true value of a working stove when you couldn't obtain (or afford) the replacement part

Alec.

 

That's one crusty burner! Are you sure you planning on firing it!?

 

Another piece of mad ingenuity; what do you do if something happens to your pump rod? Answer: replace it with a high pressure Presta cycle valve

Now why haven't I seen that before?
Carefully inserted through the hole in the pump cap, rubber seal on the inside, clamp nut tightened on the outside; what could possibly go wrong? Unfortunately the assembly was so old, corroded and falling apart we'll never know if it ever actually worked. But thankfully the pump tube cap was entirely unscathed, and this little year A, 1911, Primus model '0' should soon be brought back from the dead

 

You can put a suitable alumunium solid washer and a viton seal in the pump cap, make a hole in the filler cap and place the tire valve there. It will prevent any spill risk...
Joking!
Enrique

 

Normally a WW1-period external-NRV Svea No.9 travelling outfit would be highly prized and carefully preserved. But there is always the odd exception. Such as one which has been relegated to ordinary domestic servitude and abuse for a prolonged period.

The NRV access would once have been here:

The original external-NRV pump assembly has been ripped out and replaced by a poorly inserted standard pump tube:
(and the NRV in the insert tube itself is now beyond redemption and indeed beyond any other form of remedial intervention other than pump tube extraction; which in the circumstances is probably no bad thing)

As for the burner assembly, once upon a time this was a collapsible traveller:

Quite a catalogue of horrors, and all on one stove ...

 

The fact that it is so bad is what makes it good!

 

Might give this one a miss

 

@igh371

Why????


Cheers

Tony

 

Couldn’t have been inspired by Nansen’s Primus?



John

 

I can't match some of the classics listed on this thread, but this Optimus 45 was at least the worst looking one I've encountered thus far. The friend that gave it to me thought it was in much worse condition and that there might be a hole in the fount with the solder slopped on. I saw this as a diamond in the rough.

Missing leg and proof that some folks should not be allowed near solder.





The after pic:


Lastly, the money shot: